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Catalin Marinas wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 17 January 2011 08:42, Stanley.Miao <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stanley.miao@windriver.com"><stanley.miao@windriver.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">When BE8 kernel is running on a little endian machine, the kernel endian
mode need to be converted at the begining of the startup procedure with
the instruction "setend be".
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Can we not let the boot loader do this? It could also prepare the tags
as big endian.
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Yes, the bootloader can also do this. However, it is dangerous to
modify the <br>
bootloader. If the new boot loader can't work, it is difficult to
update the <br>
bootloader again. So, I choose to modify Linux kernel.<br>
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Stanley.<br>
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